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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-17-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-17-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Research article
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09 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2020

Exploring mechanisms responsible for tidal modulation in flow of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf

Sebastian H. R. Rosier and G. Hilmar Gudmundsson

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The flow of ice shelves is now known to be strongly affected by ocean tides, but the mechanism by which this happens is unclear. We use a viscoelastic model to try to reproduce observations of this behaviour on the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. We find that tilting of the ice shelf explains the short-period behaviour, while tidally induced movement of the grounding line (the boundary between grounded and floating ice) explains the more complex long-period response.
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